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Mastering Arduino

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Arduino

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Mastering Arduino is an all-in-one guide to getting the most out of your Arduino. This practical, no-nonsense guide teaches you all of the electronics and programming skills that you need to create advanced Arduino projects. This book is packed full of real-world projects for you to practice on, bringing all of the knowledge in the book together and giving you the skills to build your own robot from the examples in this book. The final two chapters discuss wireless technologies and how they can be used in your projects. The book begins with the basics of electronics, making sure that you understand components, circuits, and prototyping before moving on. It then performs the same function for code, getting you into the Arduino IDE and showing you how to connect the Arduino to a computer and run simple projects on your Arduino. Once the basics are out of the way, the next 10 chapters of the book focus on small projects centered around particular components, such as LCD displays, stepper motors, or voice synthesizers. Each of these chapters will get you familiar with the technology involved, how to build with it, how to program it, and how it can be used in your own projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)

Bluetooth LE

In this book so far, all external communication with our Arduino projects has been in a closed environment. By closed environment, we mean that our project simply received information or direction from a remote control and no information was transmitted out from the project. There are numerous use cases where we need to transmit information from our Arduino project to an external device such as a smartphone or other IoT device. When there is a need such as this, one of the first technologies that is brought up is Bluetooth Low Energy, also known as Bluetooth LE or Bluetooth Smart.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • What Bluetooth LE is
  • How the Bluetooth LE radio works
  • What the GAP profile is
  • What the GATT profile is
  • How to use the HM-10 Bluetooth LE radio module with the Arduino